Photos of Growing Up

It’s not a metaphor. It’s the City Museum in St. Louis, where holding on is every bit as essential as letting go. There’s no place better to be a child in America than this rough and tumble wonderland. Read more about City Museum and other family fun spots in and […]

Warm air, cool breezes, a picnic blanket, and a visit from the ice cream truck helped to make our 2015 Memorial Day a super memorable one. Mouse helped as best she could to get the kite off the ground, but let’s not talk about those repeated plummets to the green […]

In many ways, there is nothing uniquely special about this photo of my two daughters looking at, and laughter into, each others gaze. This is a scene I could photograph countless times during each day in which the family calendar is an empty square of white, each day these two […]

It’s hard to dodge the superhero deluge of 21st century American culture. I try my best to swerve into and out of Marvel’s hostile takeover of society, to find a comfortable balance of costumed heroics and plain clothes narrative. My daughters enjoy but are not overwhelmed by all things comic book, […]